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Located in the Cornerstone Arts and Culture Center in Wynyard Saskatchewan the art nest was started as part of Art therapy student, Dana Stefanson's Major research project for her diploma program at WHEAT Institute. The Everything from the space to furniture, tools and supplies are donated and it is facilitated by Dana and a group of teen volunteers.

The aims of the studio are:

· To offer a safe and welcoming place for creativity

· To highlight the mental health benefits of engaging in the creative process

SIUe/STL Art Hives is the local chapter of the art-therapy led initiatives creating community art studios that welcome everyone as an artist. From an art pop-up in a local library to a community studio or gallery, at its heart, an Art Hive is about inclusion, respect and learning. It’s a welcoming place to talk, make art and build communities. Responding in creative ways to things that matter.

An experimental art hive has been set up in Arbat Refugee Camp ( I like the name Arc in English for our art hive! A safe place). At the moment it is only for girls and women of the community, ranging from 6 years upwards. STEP Iraq is an NGO that works in the Sulimanie region of Kurdistan with some of the most vulnerable children. STEP has been working with Syrian children within the ARC refugee camp in a Child Friendly Space setting since 2013. I am an art-therapist who has arrived relatively recently, and my job if that of a consultant for the staff members who are doing pyschosocial creative activities with the children and youth who come to our safe space. As a trained art therapist, I obviously wanted to be able to practise art therapy; to use my skills to help certain children and youth express themselves through creative means, within a safe, professional and therapeutic context. This I have begun to do, but I realised very quickly that I wanted to create a safe context where I could invite bigger groups of different members of the community to participate in creative activities and to experience potential therapeutic benefits. This is when I discovered the idea of 'art-hives'. My hope is that this art-hive will benefit the ARC community, in the short term, and perhaps inspire some of its members to one day open their own art-hive spaces in other parts of Iraq and Syria...to be kind, be human and be the change.....

We are beginning the first, (of what we hope will evolve into many,) Pop-Up Art Hive in Edwardsville as part of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Art Therapy Counseling Program. We will explore the Art Hives model and start with our students, then our home department of Art & Design. We are exploring relationships with our Sustainability program, the Counseling Center, the Multicultural Center and other collaborators on campus. We additionally are in conversation with community partners in the St. Louis area who are also interested in the Art Hive model. We look forward to coming back to the site to update our activity and description as the work evolves!

The Artworks Collective is founded on the premise that through the making of art and the building of relationships in an art collective setting, individual lives, art, and communities can be made and transformed. We believe that in this way, we become personally and socially transformed and transformative in relation to ourselves and others.

We at the collective are especially dedicated in taking the challenges that get in the way of art making, relationship, and community building and using them in the service of personal and social transformation.

Starting with Pop Up Art Hives over the coming months the Boys and Girls Club of LaSalle will be seeking to establish a permanent and intergenerational space for our community to be able to undertake unstructured art activities.

We already have a wide range of programming for anyone aged 0 to 99 our Art Hive will serve as a space to make connections, share stories and build a community together through art and creation.

MidTown is A community space in development in London, Ontario, where people can share food, arts, and ideas for the neighbourhood. MidTown will house a community café and arts space designed to attract a diverse range of people with the intention of sparking connections, conversations and inspirations. We believe there is tremendous un-tapped potential within ordinary individuals, especially youth, to build great neighbourhoods and MidTown is the place for this to happen. The MidTown Arts space is a unique centre which will bring community together through the arts: dance, visual arts, music, theater and other expressive arts mediums. Creativity, in all of its forms, encourages engagement and collaboration among participants and has the ability to readily connect diverse audiences.

Though the team at The 296 Project doesn't offer Art Therapy directly, it is very much at the core of what we do to provide the resources to a program participant who is in need.

We believe that Art Therapy, as in any form of creative expression, can give our program participants a voice where they may not have had one before. The tenets of art therapy involve humanism, creativity, reconciling emotional conflicts, fostering self-awareness, and personal growth.

The school in the atelier is a project born from the desire to live a creative morning, or catch a show in the firefly theater-studio.

Space is studied in detail to facilitate listening or the feasibility of the laboratory .

The project is open to all students in the primary, secondary and higher education, to carry out, together with their teachers, their educational projects with the pleasure of enjoying a morning workshop or performance.